As another academic year comes to an end, we are reflecting on our favourite moments throughout the year. During the 2023 – 2024 academic year, we worked with approximately 150,000 students in our workshops, performances and presentations.  Thank you… To our brilliant team of facilitators and performers for their hard work and dedication to providing outstanding workshops.  To all the schools that work with us year on year, and all the new schools that worked with us this year. To our office team for consistently organising the visits to ensure schools and students get a great exper ..read more

What is the theme for Anti-Bullying Week 2024? For Anti-Bullying Week 2024 the theme is Choose Respect. The Anti-Bullying Alliance, in collaboration with it’s members, is promoting this vital message. We love this new theme because it emphasises the importance of encouraging empathy and empowering children and young people to make respectful choices, even in the face of conflict. Moreover, it calls on adults to model these behaviors, leading by example and creating a positive culture free of bullying. Here is the call to action for Anti-Bullying Week 2024: From playgrounds to parliament, our ..read more

Knife Crime Awareness Week is taking place from Monday 20th May – Sunday 26th May 2024. Organised by The Ben Kinsella Trust, the week aims to bring awareness to the impacts of knife crime on families and communities. It is vital that young people have a foundational knowledge of personal safety, which can then be linked to more specific issues, such as knife crime. We have created this poster, specifically to support knife crime awareness week, and encourage all young people to: Think SAFE. Download this Knife Crime Awareness Week Poster Here   This Knife Crime Awareness Week: Think SAFE ..read more

  Did you know WhatsApp has over two billion users worldwide? The ability to easily send text, videos, photos and files, along with the capacity to make video and voice calls have made WhatsApp the world’s most popular messaging platform.  What’s the age rating for WhatsApp? WhatsApp is rated 13+. In 2024, WhatsApp lowered the age rating in Europe from 16 to 13. This change received criticism from Children’s Rights Advocates, arguing that the changes expose children to potential online harms. This change may mean that more primary school aged children are accessing WhatsApp than eve ..read more

Did you know, the most popular online activity for children and young people is watching videos? More than ever before, social media influencers play a big part in shaping the opinions and views of young people.  Some of these influencers are positive, providing relatable and relevant information for a wide range of interests. But the popularity of influencers can also bring certain risks.  In this video we share what parents and carers need to know about influencers: Pressure to buy things Influencers can create a pressure to buy things. One of the main ways influencers make money ..read more

We wanted to say a huge thank you to all the schools that we visited for Anti-Bullying Week 2023. During Anti-Bullying Week 2023 we… Performed 22 Anti-Bullying Theatre Shows Visited 45 Schools Provided 201 Workshops Reached 8259 Students Thank you to all the schools that Tweeted about the visited, here are some of the highlights: Exploring ways to use our voices to make a noise about bullying with @openviewed using both a ‘sentence of strength’ and our ‘shoulders of strength’! pic.twitter.com/xgs1tndM4w — Sway School (@stlukesschoolsw) November 21, 2023 ?Our Anti-Bullying Work continues ..read more

This year the theme for Anti-Bullying Week is Make a Noise About Bullying. To help your school promote this positive message, we’ve created this new Make a Noise With Kindness Anti-Bullying Week Poster. You can put this poster up in your classroom to start a conversation about how your students can show kindness at your school this Anti-Bullying Week.   Download the Make a Noise With Kindness Poster here. You can use this poster as an inspiration and even make your own posters. Start a discussion with your students about how they could Make a Noise with Kindness this Anti-Bullying Week ..read more

At OpenView Education we work with thousands of young people every year providing education on bullying. An essential first step is establishing a shared definition of what bullying is. This helps young people to know the difference between a conflict (an argument or disagreement), and bullying. We created this short video to support educators and teachers to introduce the topic of bullying, and exploring how we know if something is bullying:   Download the Supporting ‘What Is Bullying?’ Poster for this Video here.   When we think of the word bully, we might picture in our mind, thi ..read more

Download a PDF copy of the poster here.    When we visit schools with our Anti-Bullying Workshops, an important first step is establishing a shared understanding of what bullying is. Knowing the difference between conflict, an argument and bullying can help young people to understand when bullying is happening. There is also confusion about the difference between banter and bullying. Having an understanding of a power imbalance can help students to know when something is banter, and when a joke has gone too far and become bullying. At OpenView Education we are proud to be Associate m ..read more

Roblox is one of the most popular online games for children and young people. The game promotes creativity by allowing players to build their own games and custom levels that can be shared with other players. Roblox games reflect the imaginative play that you might see in the playground. Players can make up games, decide on the rules, and then change the rules as the group decides how to have fun together. What are the age ratings for Roblox? Because the content in Roblox is user generated, it makes classifying the age rating more difficult. Roblox includes age recommendations on all content ..read more